Frontiers in microbiology
Species distribution, antimicrobial resistance, and putative virulence factor profiles of Aeromonas isolates from extra-intestinal clinical specimens: a whole-genome sequencing study
By Jiang Q and Weng X.
Abstract
Introduction
Aeromonas spp. are increasingly recognized opportunistic pathogens of humans, yet integrated genomic and phenotypic data from clinical, extra-intestinal isolates remain limited. We characterized 74 non-duplicate Aeromonas isolates recovered from extra-intestinal clinical specimens at a tertiary hospital in Ningbo, China, between 2020 and 2025, combining whole-genome sequencing (WGS)-based taxonomy, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, and resistome and putative virulence factor (VF) prediction.